Kamikazi Kat

Engine, your story is somewhat similar to mine. I discovered Mr. Bungle and hated it, but still wanted to listen to it again for some reason until I eventually loved it. After that came a long period of me only listening to avant-garde bands. I guess you could say I was kind of pretentious about it, I still don't like how I limited myself soley to experimental music. But I think I was just so surprised by there being so much more to music then I thought before. As of about half of a year ago, though, I expanded my tastes to pretty much all other forms of music. Experimental music still makes up a large part of my tastes though.

Engine

No reason to denigrate yourself for your having your own opinions. Of course you should avoid being a prick about it but there's nothing pretentious about wanting to hear only what you want to hear when you want to hear it. I went years without giving good bands the chance they deserved because I couldn't stand their general sound. But there's time to hear it all.

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